The urge to miniaturize electronics did not exist before the space program. I mean our grandparents had radios that was furniture in… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
A classic,' suggested Anthony, 'is a successful book that has survived the reaction of the next period or generation. Then it's safe,… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
I'm usually able to reuse at least 50 percent of the clients' furniture. Most times, I'll just clean it up, make it… — Jonathan Scott Copy Share Image
Confidence in one's self is the chief nurse of magnanimity, which confidence, notwithstanding, doth not leave the care of necessary furniture for… — Philip Sidney Copy Share Image
In the Scottish Orkneys, the little stone houses with their single large room and central hearth had an extraordinary range of built-in… — Stephen Gardiner Copy Share Image
It is not necessarily at home that we best encounter our true selves. The furniture insists that we cannot change because it… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
Man is made of the wholly common, and custom is his nurse; woe then to them who lay irreverent hands on his… — Friedrich Schiller Copy Share Image
Perhaps I could best describe my experience of doing mathematics in terms of entering a dark mansion. You go into the first… — Andrew Wiles Copy Share Image
Science fiction has its own history, its own legacy of what's been done, what's been superseded, what's so much part of the… — Iain Banks Copy Share Image
“The sad rocking chair in the corner was actually a joke of a chair: if one started laughing at it, one could… — Knut Hamsun Copy Share Image
This region [North Carolina] used to be the furniture manufacturing hub of the world. I know because I bought plenty. But the… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
I am going in now for interior decoration. By that I mean supplying objets d'art and giving advice regarding the decoration of… — Elsie de Wolfe Copy Share Image
When I was creative director [at Estée Lauder], I was always being asked about my beauty must-haves. From there I had this… — Aerin Lauder Copy Share Image
Lie beside me. Let me see the division of your pores. Let me see the web of scars made by your family's… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Though the parallel is not complete, it is safe to say that science will never touch them unaided by its practical applications.… — Arthur Balfour Copy Share Image
Consider these people, then, their way of life, their habits, their manners, the very tones of their voice; look at them attentively;… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
The worst thing about film, from my point of view, is that it cripples illusions which I have encouraged people to create… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
My name is Eva, which means 'life,' according to a book of names my mother consulted. I was born in the back… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
If the house is to be demolished tomorrow anyhow, people seem to feel, we may as well burn the furniture today. None… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
I believe that a negative statement is poison.I'm convinced that the negative has power. It lives. And if you allow it to… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
I think that's the great thing about interiors is that they can be treated like a great wardrobe. Choose a sofa and… — Jeremiah Brent Copy Share Image
I am afraid that all the grace that I have got of my comfortable and easy times and happy hours, might almost… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
The great crime which the moneyed classes and promoters of industry committed in the palmy Victorian days was the condemning of the… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
The heart of Paris is like nothing so much as the unending interior of a house. Buildings become furniture, courtyards become carpets… — John Berger Copy Share Image
For some people, history is simply what your wife looks good standing in front of. It’s what’s cast in bronze, or framed… — Elizabeth McCracken Copy Share Image
Seems to me we move the furniture, the French come in later and put the doilies on top of it...It's a simple… — Dennis Miller Copy Share Image
Why should not our furniture be as simple as the Arab's or the Indian's? When I think of the benefactors of the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Every time I score the passion comes out and I try to relay that back to the fans and to the players… — Timothy F. Cahill Copy Share Image
And last, my mom. I don’t think you know what you did. You had my brother when you were 18 years old.… — Kevin Durant Copy Share Image
War proves nothing. To kill a man does not prove that he was in the wrong. Bloodletting cannot change men's spirits, neither… — Nellie L. McClung Copy Share Image
Fashion was the only law, pleasure the only pursuit, and the splendour of dress and furniture was the only distinction of the… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Renewing the mind is a little like refinishing furniture. It is a two-stage process. It involves taking off the old and replacing… — Charles Stanley Copy Share Image
Our dangers, as it seems to me, are not from the outrageous but from the conforming; not from those who rarely and… — Learned Hand Copy Share Image
Home, the idea of home, is my principal purpose. If people have bought a house as an investment or chosen the furniture… — Sister Parish Copy Share Image
We are empty shells if we do not possess, if we do not fill our life with furniture, with music, with knowledge,… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
There are simple, small things you can do that really will impact the space. Things like changing out your curtain panels to… — Drew Scott Copy Share Image
Dealers always like to sell chairs in sets of four, six, or eight. And they charge a premium for supplying the whole… — Judith Miller Copy Share Image
There are many pleasant fictions of the law in constant operation, but there is not one so pleasant or practically humorous as… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“Jeremy is an optimist. Maybe there's something good on TV. He settles down with the remote control on one of his father's… — Kelly Link Copy Share Image
For interiors, if you have a basic sofa, you can add fun throw pillows, and cool lighting to make the space more… — Jeremiah Brent Copy Share Image